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A territorial dispute between Bangladesh and India was finally solved after 30 long years, and the broker was nature.
Oceanographer Hazra commented : "What two nations could not achieve from years of discussion has been resolved by x"

New Moore Island, also called South Talpatti, was a small, uninhabited sandbar in the Bay of Bengal, near the India-Bangladesh maritime boundary. Formed after the 1970 Bhola cyclone, it became notable for territorial disputes between the two nations. The island lacked vegetation, freshwater, and permanent settlements.

the legal arguments.
"India’s legal argument rested on proximity to the coast of West Bengal and effective control through naval patrols, asserting sovereign rights under international law. Bangladesh claimed the island lay within its territorial waters based on the mid-channel principle of river boundary delimitation. The dispute highlighted differing interpretations of maritime delimitation rules under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)."

but this dispute did not last as long as it should have an the international court of justice, was once again spared from the pains of a arbitration due to x.

what phenomenon x led to the dispute resolution, which is a hot topic of the 21st century?


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